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| - The Caudini were a Samnite tribe that lived among the mountains ringing Campania and in the valleys of the Isclero and Volturnus rivers. Their capital was at Caudium, but it seems certain that the appellation was not confined to the citizens of Caudium and its immediate territory. Livy speaks in more than one passage of the Caudini as a tribe or people, in the same terms as of the Hirpini, and Niebuhr supposed them to have been one of the four tribes comprising the Samnite confederacy As the most western of the Samnite groups, they were the Samnite tribe most affected by the neighbouring Greeks of Campania.
- CAUDI'NI, a tribe of the Samnites bordering upon Campania. The name is evidently connected with that of the town of Caudium, which must probably have been at one period the capital or chief city of the tribe. But it seems certain that the appellation was not confined to the citizens of Caudium and ita immediate territory. Livy speaks in more than one passage of the Caudini as a tribe or people, in the same terms as of the Hirpini (Marcellus ab Kola crebras excursiones in agruin Hirpinum et Samnites Caudinot fecit, xxiii. 41; Caudinus 5amnis gravius devastatus, Id. xxiv. 20). and Niebuhr supposes them to have been one of the tour tribes of which the Samnite confederacy was composed. (Nieb. vol. i. p. 107, vol. ii. p. 85.) This is, however, very doubtful, and it is remarkable that we find no
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| - The Caudini were a Samnite tribe that lived among the mountains ringing Campania and in the valleys of the Isclero and Volturnus rivers. Their capital was at Caudium, but it seems certain that the appellation was not confined to the citizens of Caudium and its immediate territory. Livy speaks in more than one passage of the Caudini as a tribe or people, in the same terms as of the Hirpini, and Niebuhr supposed them to have been one of the four tribes comprising the Samnite confederacy As the most western of the Samnite groups, they were the Samnite tribe most affected by the neighbouring Greeks of Campania. The Caudini are nowhere mentioned as a separate tribe in our narratives of the Romans' Samnite Wars, probably because they were assumed included whenever the Samnites were mentioned. (The territory of the Caudini was the scene of much fighting.) Velleius Paterculus (ii. 1) says that it was with the Caudini that the Romans made their treaty following their defeat at the Battle of the Caudine Forks, where Livy uniformly talks of the Samnites. In 275 BCE, the tribe was subjugated by L. Cornelius Lentulus, whose family henceforth took the name ‘Caudinus’. The exent of their territory is unclear. The ancient poet Gratius Faliscus (Cyneget. 509) called the great mountain mass of the Taburnus the "Caudinus Taburnus", and this must have been at the center of their territory. It probably joined that of the Hirpini on the one side and of the Pentri on the other, while on the west it bordered immediately on Campania. But the name is not recognised by any of the geographers as a general appellation, and appears to have fallen into disuse: the Caudini of Pliny (iii. 11. s. 16) are only the citizens of Caudium. The cities of the Caudini included Caudium (modern Montesarchio), Caiatia (modern Caiazzo), Trebula, and Cubulteria.
- CAUDI'NI, a tribe of the Samnites bordering upon Campania. The name is evidently connected with that of the town of Caudium, which must probably have been at one period the capital or chief city of the tribe. But it seems certain that the appellation was not confined to the citizens of Caudium and ita immediate territory. Livy speaks in more than one passage of the Caudini as a tribe or people, in the same terms as of the Hirpini (Marcellus ab Kola crebras excursiones in agruin Hirpinum et Samnites Caudinot fecit, xxiii. 41; Caudinus 5amnis gravius devastatus, Id. xxiv. 20). and Niebuhr supposes them to have been one of the tour tribes of which the Samnite confederacy was composed. (Nieb. vol. i. p. 107, vol. ii. p. 85.) This is, however, very doubtful, and it is remarkable that we find no mention of the Caudini as a separate tribe during the wars of the Romans with the Samnites. Perhaps, however, they were included as a matter of course, whencvtT the Samnites were mentioned, as their country must have been continually the scene of hostilities; and Velleius Paterculus (ii. 1) speaks of the Caudini as the people with whom the treaty was concluded by the Romans after their defeat at the Forks, where Livy uniformly talks of the Samnites. It is impossible to determine with any accuracy the limits of their territory: the great mountain mass of the Taburnns, called by Gratius Faliseus (Cyneget. 509) " Caudinus Taburnus," was m the heart of it; and it is probable that it joined that of the Hirpini on the one side and of the Pentri on the other, while on the W. it bordered immediately on Campania. But the name is not recognised by any of the geographers as a general appellation, and appears to huve fallen into disuse: the Caudini of Pliny (iii. 11. s. 16) are only the citizens of Caudium.
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